1647–1656) was a significant English religious and political writer of the middle of the seventeenth century.
He was arrested in 1650, and imprisoned in Coventry,[2] with a six-month sentence; and cashiered from the Army.
[6] He was known to the Quaker George Fox,[7] from 1648/9, who identified him as one of the Ranters.
Who exactly the Ranters were is now a topic of scholarly debate, and it is suggested Fox may have supplied that name later;[8] Christopher Hill[9] considers Salmon to have belonged to the ‘mystical and quietist wing’ of the Ranters.
Salmon's last known work is Heights in Depths, from 1651, an apparent if partial recantation,[10] written to fulfil a promise he had made to secure release from jail; he then fell silent as an author.